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Karzai Calls for U.S. Troop Pullback
The Wall Street Journal ^ | March 15, 2012 | YAROSLAV TROFIMOV

Posted on 03/15/2012 3:03:54 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

KABUL—The U.S. strategy in Afghanistan suffered a double blow on Thursday, as President Hamid Karzai made a surprise demand that the U.S. and its allies pull their troops from villages into bases, and the Taliban said they suspended their negotiations with the U.S.

Mr. Karzai's request, issued after a meeting with U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in Kabul, demands a virtual end to the U.S. combat role in Afghanistan more than a year ahead of schedule, derailing U.S. military campaign plans just as the annual fighting season begins.

The Afghan president made the move amid widespread outcry over the shooting on Sunday of 16 Afghan civilians, most of them women and children, allegedly by a rogue U.S. Army staff sergeant. The U.S. on Wednesday angered Afghan officials, who had pressed for a public trial in Afghanistan, by flying the suspect to Kuwait.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghan; afghanistan; colonialism20; karzai

1 posted on 03/15/2012 3:03:57 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Trying to convert Islamic countries into Western Civilization never works.


2 posted on 03/15/2012 3:06:40 PM PDT by DNA.2012
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To: Free ThinkerNY

How about a pullback clear to the states?


3 posted on 03/15/2012 3:06:59 PM PDT by tickedoffnow (No more...)
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To: tickedoffnow

Amen!


4 posted on 03/15/2012 3:07:54 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Karzai Calls for U.S. Troop Pullback

What are we waiting for???

5 posted on 03/15/2012 3:08:24 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Should make Karzai go out to the boonies to clear landmines. Seriously this guy is going to be screaming for US assistance 6 months after we’re outta there. 6 months after that he’ll be swinging from a Taliban lamp post.


6 posted on 03/15/2012 3:12:57 PM PDT by Tallguy (It's all 'Fun and Games' until somebody loses an eye!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Pull them all out his head will be on a pole in a week.


7 posted on 03/15/2012 3:15:34 PM PDT by boomop1 (term limits is the only way to save this country.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Obama managed to lose 2 wars that Bush and our troops were winning.
8 posted on 03/15/2012 3:20:02 PM PDT by tobyhill (Fight Fire With Fire)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Pull them all out now, including all the civilian advisers and trainers. Stop giving him any money. Let him solve the problem.

Good to see that Leon Panetta, our Communist Defense Secretary, paid a personal visit to solve this problem. How’d that work out? Do you suppose he let the Marines have their weapons back after he left the scene? They might need them, if there are any more Koran riots.


9 posted on 03/15/2012 3:30:39 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

He is right we need to pull back, all the way to CONUS.


10 posted on 03/15/2012 3:30:57 PM PDT by Americanexpat (Everytime I see that guy's face ot)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Accommodate him.
11 posted on 03/15/2012 3:50:34 PM PDT by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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To: boomop1

“Pull them all out his head will be on a pole in a week.”

Works for me!!! Seeing Karzai’s head on a stick would be a fitting end to the duplicitous bastard. But why stop there? Go next door and “off” all the Paki “leadership” too. That whole miserable area isn’t worth one more precious American’s life.


12 posted on 03/15/2012 3:53:34 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Free ThinkerNY

What I do not understand is that we have based the withdrawal from Afghanistan on training Afghanistan troops so they can be effective. We have been training them for 10 years. When I was in the service basic training was six weeks. Talk about slow learners, geeesh!


13 posted on 03/15/2012 3:54:45 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: Free ThinkerNY

There is no longer a mission in Afghanistan. The ROE’s have handcuffed our troops, and led to their deaths. This extended war has resulted in so many deployments for some soldiers that the risk of mental health breakdowns is high (sans the recent massacre by a U.S. Army Sgt.). Since 01/20/2009 Coalitions troops in Afghanistan have experienced approximately 1,857 casualities (that is over the course of about 38 months, and is as opposed to 1,071 casualties over the course of about 88 months during the Bush Administration). While I do not want to see the U.S. lose a war that was once won, if our soldiers are not going to be supported appropriately so they can accomplish their mission in Afghanistan, then it is past time to bring them all home.


14 posted on 03/15/2012 4:51:22 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

At 64 yoa I have never been an isolationist. I used to think that the strong, moral, countries “should” step up and protect the innocents in countries that needed help.
Islam has forever changed my mind on this. They cannot be helped. The Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg Group should discuss what countries are to be solely Islamic {Afghanistan; Egypt; Saudi Arabia; Malaysia; etc} and let THEM run their countries as Mo has instructed them. The male leaderships that follow the path of Mo and the past Ayotollah Khomeni(Iran) who prefer to have sex with small children can continue to live their lives according to the holy allah. The “Elite” will need to come up with an orderly system to return ALL Islam believers currently in Western Civilization countries (U.S.A.; Britain; Australia; Germany; France; etc)back to the specified countries. They will also need to establish a system to get the apostates out of these areas WHEN it is confirmed they are truly apostates. The true believers of Islam will no-longer be able to obtain a wordly education (except for families of Imams and higher authorities). They can live their lives according to the true Koranic Instructions. As Khomeni (Iran)stated before his 72 virgins were received - There is no fun in Islam..


15 posted on 03/15/2012 4:54:25 PM PDT by 56newblog (Registered Islamophobe)
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To: tickedoffnow

Yes. Pull them back into bases? To do what, be easier targets? Without patrols, convoys would not be safe. So the FOB would be supported how?

Kinda like what Cosby said, What if the Revolutionary War had started, like a football game, with a coin toss and the British lost the toss? “We will wear any clothing we want and shoot from anywhere. You will wear red and march in a straight line.”


16 posted on 03/15/2012 5:34:57 PM PDT by battlecry
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Thank the Lord my son is on his way out of that wasteland. Too much blood spilled for these 7th century throwbacks.

Get out now. Burn the bridges behind us and never look back.


17 posted on 03/15/2012 6:55:06 PM PDT by PogySailor (Obama is a SCOAMF)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Told my husband three months when the burned Korans hit the fan. Still saying three months. We are out of there.


18 posted on 03/15/2012 7:20:45 PM PDT by pacpam (action=consequence and applies in all cases - friend of victory)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Karzai makes the deposed leader of Egypt (our ally — until Obama dropped him) look like a moral avatar.


19 posted on 03/15/2012 7:21:01 PM PDT by man_in_tx (Blowback: Faithfully farting towards Mecca five times daily!)
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“Karzai Calls for U.S. Troop Pullback”..

He wants us to pull back? Fine.

When we leave, we will “pull back” everything we put into that neanderthal country. They can go back to their mud & stick huts, rags for clothes and live like they are still living in 200 B/C.

FAR TOO many of our young men and women have paid the ultimate price for that country. Leave as fast as we can and take EVERYTHING we brought in there. Mad? You damn right I’m mad.


20 posted on 03/16/2012 6:11:25 AM PDT by DaveA37
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